'Pillage' definitions:
Definition of 'pillage'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
The act of stealing valuable things from a place; "the plundering of the Parthenon"; "his plundering of the great authors" [syn: plundering, pillage, pillaging]
verb
Definition of 'Pillage'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Pillage'
From: GCIDE
- Pillage \Pil"lage\, v. i. To take spoil; to plunder; to ravage. [1913 Webster]
- They were suffered to pillage wherever they went. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Pillage'
From: GCIDE
- Pillage \Pil"lage\, n. [F., fr. piller to plunder. See Pill to plunder.]
- 1. The act of pillaging; robbery. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is taken from another or others by open force, particularly and chiefly from enemies in war; plunder; spoil; booty. [1913 Webster]
- Which pillage they with merry march bring home. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Plunder; rapine; spoil; depredation.
- Usage: Pillage, Plunder. Pillage refers particularly to the act of stripping the sufferers of their goods, while plunder refers to the removal of the things thus taken; but the words are freely interchanged. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pillage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abduct,
- appropriate,
- arrogate,
- assault,
- attack,
- banditry,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- booty,
- brigandage,
- brigandism,
- brutalize,
- buccaneering,
- burn,
- butcher,
- carry off,
- carry on,
- confiscate,
- defilement,
- demolish,
- demolition,
- depredate,
- depredation,
- desecrate,
- desolate,
- despoil,
- despoiling,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- devastate,
- devastation,
- devour,
- direption,
- encroach,
- filch,
- fleece,
- forage,
- foraging,
- foray,
- freeboot,
- freebooting,
- go on,
- gut,
- hammer,
- invade,
- kidnap,
- lay waste,
- laying waste,
- level,
- lift,
- loot,
- looting,
- maraud,
- marauding,
- maul,
- mug,
- nab,
- pilfer,
- pillaging,
- pinch,
- piracy,
- plunder,
- plundering,
- prey on,
- purloin,
- rage,
- raid,
- raiding,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- ransack,
- ransacking,
- rant,
- rape,
- rapine,
- ravage,
- ravagement,
- ravaging,
- rave,
- raven,
- ravish,
- ravishment,
- raze,
- razing,
- razzia,
- reive,
- reiving,
- rifle,
- rifling,
- riot,
- roar,
- rob,
- robbery,
- ruin,
- sack,
- sacking,
- savage,
- shanghai,
- slaughter,
- sow chaos,
- spoil,
- spoiling,
- spoils,
- spoliate,
- spoliation,
- storm,
- strip,
- stripping,
- sweep,
- swipe,
- tear,
- tear around,
- terrorize,
- thieve,
- throttle,
- trespass,
- usurp,
- vandalize,
- violate,
- waste,
- wreck